Missing cdefs.h
Tony Smolar
I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
file come from?
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Wolfram Saringer
Did youinstall Solaris with the 'Developer Support' option ?
If not, use admintool to add the missing packages.
W.S.
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Tony Smolar
>Tony Smolar wrote:
>
>> I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>> because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>> seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>> file come from?
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>> Tony Smolar
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>Did youinstall Solaris with the 'Developer Support' option ?
>If not, use admintool to add the missing packages.
I thought I did, does 'everything' include the developer support option?
The Solaris install isn't totally clear on this.
>W.S.
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Alan Coopersmith
>I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>file come from?
It's not a Solaris header file - I believe BSD 4.4 systems have it, but
if your software is depending on it, it's either not ported to Solaris
(or more likely) not configured correctly for Solaris.
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Joerg Schilling
Wolfram Saringer <to-reply-remove...@bsg.at> wrote:
>Tony Smolar wrote:
>
>> I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>> because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>> seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>> file come from?
>>
>
>Did youinstall Solaris with the 'Developer Support' option ?
>If not, use admintool to add the missing packages.
sys/cdefs.h is a nonstandard include file.
No well behaving application should directly include it.
It is a known problem that programs which have been initially
developped on Linux are constantly using nonstand include files
and thus cannot easily be ported to UNIX systems :-(
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Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith <al...@godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Tony Smolar <asmolar.ma.ultranet.removethis.com> wrote:
>>I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>>because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>>seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>>file come from?
>
>if your software is depending on it, it's either not ported to Solaris
It's an internal GNU include file. No application should directly depend on
it or it violates POSIX 1003 and UNIX 98 specs.
Write a bug report to the author of the code.
Tony Smolar
>In article <377EC167...@bsg.at>,
>Wolfram Saringer <to-reply-remove...@bsg.at> wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>>> because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>>> seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>>> file come from?
>>>
>>
>>Did youinstall Solaris with the 'Developer Support' option ?
>>If not, use admintool to add the missing packages.
>
>sys/cdefs.h is a nonstandard include file.
>
>No well behaving application should directly include it.
>
>It is a known problem that programs which have been initially
>developped on Linux are constantly using nonstand include files
>and thus cannot easily be ported to UNIX systems :-(
I've run into quite a few programs which needed it, one was "OpenLDAP". I
found a cdefs.h in the sendmail source code which I copied there that seemed
to make things happy, but I thought there might be an official version
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Joerg Schilling
Tony Smolar <asmolar.ma.ultranet.removethis.com> wrote:
>On 5 Jul 1999 10:27:36 GMT, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>In article <377EC167...@bsg.at>,
>>Wolfram Saringer <to-reply-remove...@bsg.at> wrote:
>>>Tony Smolar wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't been able to get GCC 2.8.1 or egcs to compile anything useful
>>>> because it can't find /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h. This header file doesn't
>>>> seem to be present on any of my (2.6) Solaris machines. Where does this
>>>> file come from?
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>
>>>Did youinstall Solaris with the 'Developer Support' option ?
>>>If not, use admintool to add the missing packages.
>>
>>sys/cdefs.h is a nonstandard include file.
>>
>>No well behaving application should directly include it.
>>
>>It is a known problem that programs which have been initially
>>developped on Linux are constantly using nonstand include files
>>and thus cannot easily be ported to UNIX systems :-(
>
>I've run into quite a few programs which needed it, one was "OpenLDAP". I
>found a cdefs.h in the sendmail source code which I copied there that seemed
>to make things happy, but I thought there might be an official version
If you are in doubt about offifical interfaces you might have a look
at the UNIX-98 specs at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xshix.html
... Don't forget to flame the author of a piece of software that doesn't
follow this rules. If nobody cares about standard compliance we might end up
in tons of "free" software that depends on proprietary interfaces that could
be found only on Linux or *BSD.
Note that I don't object new inventions but there is no need for just different
solutions that give no new value.